Freiraum
Choreographies of DTH dancers
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We go one step further: This »Freiraum« gives dancers of Dance Theatre Heidelberg the opportunity to develop their choreographic skills and to present them. Their performances are longer and more comprehensive than previous works.
Together with their colleagues, they create complex landscapes of movements and tell stories underlining their individual artistic signatures. »Freiraum« does not just showcase our company’s virtuosity in dance but also the artistic depth that arises when dancers turn into choreographers and open up new perspectives on movement and expression.
»Confessions for you«
Starting from small confessions on automatic hypocritical contradictory behaviours, an overwhelming landscape slowly unfolded:
Victim and oppressor blur.
Complicity and helplessness overlap.
Uncertainty inspires self-overprotection.
Real connection and human interdependency appear dismissed.
Collective power and collective responsibility, as disembodied concepts.
Overstimulation, constant information and numbness, the norm.
Reality and fiction intertwining.
Giving up and celebration merging.
»A King Without Distraction«
»A King without distraction is a man full of misery.« Blaise Pascal.
This line emphasizes the necessity of diversion to escape existential despair. However, is distraction enough? Even when meaning seems impossible to find, should we give up?
Following the philosophical reflection of Jean Giono's novel with the same title, this piece is an exploration of boredom, violence, and the human need for stimulation.
»No no no no, really thank you«
Invisible social dynamics shape how we see ourselves.
In the desire to be seen, to be liked, we seek for recognition, and that becomes tied to power, success, and confidence.
Social media intensifies this dynamic, and we keep adjusting, performing, and becoming.
What part of ourselves is real and what is performance?
Fake it until you make it?
»An open gesture«
»An open gesture« explores the desire for absolute openness, unfolding oneself infinitely. Exploring fusion and disappearance as a result of giving in, erasing our limits to fuse with it all.
How far can a body open itself without ceasing to be a body?
The production of the decorative parts is carried out in the workshops of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg.
A complete list of all employees of the technical departments involved can be found here.
